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And having said all those cute things, VDH ultimately says he doesn't see US as having any other options.Transnational terrorism still remains mostly Islamist in nature. Very few impoverished Hindu, Christian, or Sikh terrorists go abroad to murder civilians. Nor are the wretched poor of Brazil or Haiti organizing mass-murdering assaults against foreigners and Western iconic targets in their cities.
Third, the serial excuses of Pakistan are also beginning to wear thin. Hundreds of Indians have been killed by Pakistani terrorists, who have routinely attacked both foreigners and Christians in their own country. It is now over seven years since more than 3,000 innocent Americans were murdered on orders from terrorists now all but certainly in sanctuary in Pakistan — and whom we are still told cannot be extradited.
So despite billions of dollars in American military and financial assistance given to Pakistan, nothing really changes. When pressed to explain the apparent role of the Pakistani military or intelligence services in turning a blind eye to jihadists, the government — whether a Pervez Musharraf in uniform or now civilian President Asif Ali Zardari (formerly known as “Mr. Ten Percent” for allegations of graft) — still politely offers a variety of clichés.
The Pakistani borderlands are beyond the government’s control. Pressuring the existing government for either more order or more democracy will lead only to worse alternatives — such as a takeover by fundamentalist clerics, authoritarian generals, or weak democrats whose plebiscites will ensure rule by popular fanatics. No Pakistani leader of any stripe ever quite takes responsibility of the government for the mayhem committed by its own citizens or foreigners on its soil.
Instead, there always seems an implied threat that it would be unwise to push too far a volatile Pakistan that possesses nuclear weapons, or whose fanaticism makes it immune from classical laws of nuclear deterrence, or whose poverty and mismanagement ensure that it simply cannot be expected to meet international norms of behavior.
Wrong, sir. There's a win/win alternative for both the US and India. And that is join forces and physically denuke TSP; to bomb away the TSPA/ISI high command and thereby their ability to inflict harm on anybody including pakistani politicians and common people; To dismember TSP into its natural sub-nationalities, and to merge PoK-NA with India as a stable, secure land bridge to Afghanistan for US forces and bases there.Just as I didn’t envy George W. Bush’s lose/lose dilemma in dealing with Pakistan and global Islamic terrorism, so too I can only sympathize with President-Elect Obama, who faces the same dismal choices.
BTW, didn't some packee govrmand official once squeal that TSP will nuke yindia regardless of who (US/Israel) attacks their N assets? What has been Dillli's response, if any? Time to let TSPA know that we will hold them and the PRC responsible regardless of whatever plausible deniability they seek to hide under if and when the next JDAM goes off in any part of yindia.
Was American public's response to attack Afghanistan also sabre rattling....someone needs to ask this Ishaan Tharoor? Are Indian lives cheaper than American ones??? 
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